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Cortical Alterations in H3K27ac Regulation in Gene Expression Coincide Associated with Cognitive Decline and Affective Behavior in Mice During Aging: Genome-wide Epigenetic Analysis

GSE299940 Mus musculus (mouse) ChIP-seq / ATAC-seq (genome binding and open chromatin) 12 samples Submitted 2026/06/22 Platform GPL34328
At a glance

ChIP-seq / ATAC-seq (genome binding and open chromatin) · mouse · 12 samples

What it is
ChIP-seq / ATAC-seq (genome binding and open chromatin)Where proteins bind the genome, or which regions are open and active.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
12 samples: 12 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Summary (written by the submitters)
Histone acetylation plays a critical role in the regulation of gene expression in humans and animals, influencing various biological processes, including brain function during aging. Understanding the alterations in histone acetylation during aging could provide insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying age-related cognitive decline.
Read the full summary ↓
In this study, we investigated the dynamics of histone acetylation and its functional effects in the brain during aging by characterizing and comparing differences in memory and affective behavior, histone H3 levels, expression of histone-modifying enzymes HDACs and HAT, genome-wide H3K27ac abundancy, an active enhancer, and gene expression between young (2-3 months old) and aged (18-20 months old) genetically identical mice. Our results demonstrate that aging induces a variety behavioral phenotypes including a decline in activity/locomotion, increase in anxiety, and memory impairment, that occurs in conjunction with dysregulation of HDAC 1, 2, and 3, HAT p300 and genome-wide differential abundancy of H3K27ac at a variety of gene promoters. Importantly, we also demonstrated that age-related reductions in H3K27ac at gene promoters were associated with decreased expression levels of genes related to DNA damage and aging including Map3K1, Rev1, and Cdk2ap1. Overall, our study suggests the role of histone acetylation as a regulator of gene expression during brain aging and that changes in histone acetylation are associated with age-related alterations in memory and cognitive decline.
This dataset
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Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE299940_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: Look for peak files (.bed, .narrowPeak) and signal tracks (.bigWig) among the supplementary files; the raw reads are on ENA.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1277582 and SRA study SRP592768. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
12 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 12 sample titles: 12 distinct titles with little repetition. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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